Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Trump Businesses During Midterms
Source: motherjones
The president’s fundraising was unprecedented.
Russ Choma November 14, 2018 10:51 AM
Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign raised and spent an unprecedented sum of money during the midterm elections. But much of that cash wasn’t used to help endangered Republicans in Congress—it was used to help Donald Trump.
Presidential campaigns don’t typically raise much—or any—money during midterm election cycles, leaving congressional candidates and national parties to do most of the financial work. During the 2010 cycle, Barack Obama’s campaign raised nothing—his 2010 campaign finance filings are filled with notations of returned donations, not newly collected ones. Obama went on to raise $738 million for his 2012 reelection, but that effort didn’t start until the late spring of 2011.
Trump, on the other hand, kicked off his 2020 fundraising efforts within hours of his inauguration last year, and his presidential campaign alone raised $60 million through the end of September, the latest month for which filings are available. Working with the Republican National Committee, Trump appears to have raised at least another $46 million.
GOP congressional candidates complained they were swamped by Democratic fundraising this year—much of it small-dollar donations from a highly energized base. With the war chest Trump’s campaign amassed, he could have been well positioned to be a powerful ally to struggling Republicans. He mostly was not.
Instead, through the end of September, his campaign paid $3.2 million to Trump’s own properties and businesses.......................................
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/trump-campaign-paid-millions-to-trump-businesses-during-midterms/
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